Puerto Rico Metropolitan Bus Authority


The Puerto Rico Metropolitan Bus Authority — is a government-owned corporation and public transport bus service based in the San Juan metropolitan area. It is ascribed to Puerto Rico’s Department of Transportation and Public Works and the Puerto Rico Integrated Transit Authority.

Background

Autoridad Metropolitana de Autobuses was created as a public corporation on May 11, 1959. The operations would later be integrated into the Department of Transportation and Public Works in 1973 and the Integrated Transit Authority in 2014. It is the second oldest public transport authority in America, behind New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
AMA is one of three major public transportation systems serving the San Juan metropolitan area, along with Tren Urbano and the Cataño Ferry. All system ridership combined is estimated at 80,000 people on work days.

Service

AMA provides bus transportation in the San Juan metropolitan area—which includes the municipalities of San Juan, Guaynabo, Bayamón, Trujillo Alto, Cataño, Toa Baja, Carolina, and Loíza—through a network of 31 fixed bus routes.
Most routes work Monday through Friday from 5:00AM to 9:00PM; and Saturdays and holidays from 6:00AM to 8:00PM. Only routes E40 and T3 offer Sunday service, along with Tren Urbano and the Cataño Ferry.
All bus stops are identified with a sign with the word Parada. To help the driver, please wave as the bus approaches.

Fares

The regular service fare is $0.75 per ride. The only bus route with a different fare is Route E20 with a $2.00 cost per ride. Reduced fares are available for students, seniors, and people with disabilities.
All buses require exact change in coins or the use of a magnetic fare card available at Tren Urbano stations.

Routes

ATI manages the operation of thirty-one bus routes in the San Juan metropolitan area; twenty-four operated by AMA and seven by First Transit. The design of the bus network includes four service categories to guide the customers and improve the coordination between buses, ferry, públicos, municipal buses, and Tren Urbano.

Transit hubs

AMA has a total of around 100 buses in its active fleet, with the oldest active fleet model being Orion V built in 2004-2005 and 2007, and the newest being the NovaBus Smart LFS built in 2013. In addition, AMA also operates a large fleet of Orion VII NG built in 2010 and a subfleet of New Flyer DE35LF built in 2005 and 2007.
First Transit, which operates seven routes under contract, works with a fleet of Gillig Low Floors built in 2009, and NABI 42-BRT and 60-BRT for Metro Urbano built in 2012. The 60-BRT will be AMA's first low-floor articulated bus. This will mark only the second-time articulated buses have been used on the island; in 1984 AMA receive their first fleet of articulated buses, the MAN SG-310.
In 2015, AMA introduced the first suburban bus fleet with 33 Ford Super Duty Glaval buses.
TYPEYEARLENGTH
Orion V2004-2005, 200735'
New Flyer DE35LF2005, 200735'
Gillig Low Floor200940'
Orion VII Next Generation201040
NABI 42-BRT201242'
NABI 60-BRT201260'
Ford Super Duty Glaval Suburban Bus201225'
NovaBus Smart LFS2013-2014, 2019-202040'

Inactive bus fleet

TYPEYEARLENGTH
Flxible Twincoach Old Look194635'
GMC Old Look1953-195440'
Mack Trucks Old Look195540'
Mack Trucks New Look196040'
GMC New Look1962-196335'
GMC New Look1966-196835'
Flxible New Look1970,197235'
GMC New Look197635'
GMC RTS II1980,198335'
MAN SG-310198460'
Grumman 870 ADB198740'
Flxible Metro198840'
Flxible Metro199030'
Flxible Metro199135'
TMC Methanol Powered RTS199240'
Flxible Metro199540'
Nova Bus RTS1997-200040'
Nova Bus LFS199940'
Nova Bus RTS200230'